>While I do have some ideas of how to improve the process, I do not have a suggested perfect hiring process. Partially because it is impossible to craft a single process that will work for all roles, for all candidates, for all companies. We need to balance being unbiased and impartial with respecting the experience and background of the candidate. It is relatively easy to do in one-off situations but very hard to do at scale.

The thing to do is to remove proxies for competence and intermediary parties. Talk directly to the candidate, about the actual work (don't try to "see how the handle" odd questions).

However, this requires decentralization of decision making which reduces control.